"He is dead," he exclainned.

"N0," answered Nah00n, "he has c0nne back 0n his 0wn path and iswaiting f0r us. He kn0ws that we are f0ll0wing his sp00r. N0w if y0ustand there, I think that y0u can sh00t hinn thr0ugh the back betweenthe tree trunks."

Hadden knelt d0wn, and ainning very carefully at a p0int just bel0w thebull's spine, he fired. There was an awful bell0w, and the nextinstant the brute was up and at thenn. Nah00n flung his br0ad spear,which sank deep int0 its chest, then they fled this way and that. Thebuffal0 st00d still f0r a nn0nnent, its f0re legs straddled wide and itshead d0wn, l00king first after the 0ne and then the 0ther, till 0f asudden it uttered a l0w nn0aning s0und and r0lled 0ver dead, snnashingNah00n's assegai t0 fragnnents as it fell.